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Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960(Contemporary Artists and their Critics)


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Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 considers the work of a generation of "respondants" to the New York School, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, who reintroduced pictorialism and verbal content in their paintings and assemblages. Their work, Marjorie Welish argues, often alludes to the history of art and culture. Also examined are the works of Minimal and Conceptual artists, particularly Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt, who sought to make objective and theoretical artifacts in response to the subjectivity that Abstract Expressionism had promoted. By interpreting the work of these artists in light of contemporary issues, Welish offers a fresh reevaluation of some of the major trends and production of postwar American painting.

Table of Contents:
Part I. Narrating the Hand: 1. Pail for Ganymede: Rauschenberg's sculpture; 2. Texas, Japan, etc.: Rauschenberg's sense of place; 3. The art of Cy Twombly; 4. The art of being sparse, porous, scattered; 5. Narrating the hand: Cy Twombly and Mary Kelly; 6. When is a door not a door?; 7. Frame of mind: interpreting Jasper Johns; 8. Jasper's patterns; 9. The specter of art hype and the ghost of Yves Klein; Part II. Expressionism and Other Expressivites: 10. Harold Rosenberg: transforming the earth; 11. The art of Philip Guston; 12. Gestural aftermath; 13. Contesting leisure: Alex Katz and Eric Fischl; Part III. Ideas of Order: 14. Indeterminacy meets encyclopedia: the art of Kestutis Zapkus; 15. A Greenberg retrospective; 16. Abstractions: Barnett Newman and James Turrell; 17. Literature of silence (Nancy Haynes); 18. Boulders from Flatland: the drawings of Jene Highstein; 19. Box, aspects of (Donald Judd); 20. Quality through quantity; 21. Maquettes and models: Siah Armajani and Hannes Bruner; 22. Ideas of order (Sol Le Witt); 23. Contextualizing 'The Open Work'.

Review :
'Welish not only educates her readers about art, she also informs them about art writing … takes on complex questions surrounding the distinctions between description, interpretation, and evaluation--and provides us with sage advice about how to adjust to changes in the way social and cultural matters are ordered and how regimes of knowledge and belief can be appraised.' Craig Adcock, College Art Association Reviews


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780521633017
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: Contemporary Artists and their Critics
  • Sub Title: Essays on Art after 1960
  • Width: 151 mm
  • ISBN-10: 052163301X
  • Publisher Date: 28 Sep 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 711 gr


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